Owing largely to the presence of only seven of the nine members on the bench, thirty cases heard at the term of the United States supreme court just ended must be reargued next term.
It
is said that Goethe once remarked that it was easier to rebuke error than to speak truth, and so we often find the young student of Christian Science, in his first enthusiastic attempts to promote the welfare of his fellows, offering unsolicited counsel or even rebukes with a mistaken sense of doing good.
There
will be no objection upon the part of any exponent of modern ethics to the proposition that optimism is better than pessimism, that it is a power for good and leads to improved conditions; and all shades of Christian thought today will endorse and sustain the desirability of up-looking instead of down-looking.
Christian Science
is proclaiming anew to the world the truth that if it would ever know freedom from disease and bondage, from weight and woe, it must obey the command of Scripture, "Be ye holy in all manner of conversation.
The
problem of supply is one which has to be met by each of us in some of its various forms and phases, and its correct solution proves the possibility of solving all other problems.
While
trying to realize the truth about conditions which the world calls "hopeless," this text from Isaiah came into mind: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
It is no hyperbole, but the literal truth, to say that there are multitudes of people happy and well today who, but for Christian Science, would be either in their graves or hopelessly invalided.
Christian Scientists know that their teaching is radically different on some lines from that of others, and that a superficial reading of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," fits no one to judge it or the practice of its followers.
with contributions from Bicknell Young, Annie M. Knott, Julia S. Bartlett
The
annual meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, was held in the church edifice Monday, June 6, and the reports submitted by the Treasurer and Clerk were most satisfactory and encouraging.
The
extent of man's God-given authority is graphically outlined in the first chapter of Genesis, where man is spoken of as having "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
With
wonderful wisdom and foresight our revered Leader has directed that the first lessons of the children in our Sunday Schools shall be the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation.
with contributions from Francis J. Hambly, W. J. Hill, Colonel Hobart, Jacob S. Shield
An audience that taxed the seating capacity of the Victory Theater listened for an hour and a half last evening [April 18] to an impressive address on the subject of Christian Science by Frank H.
In 1898 Christian Science found me helpless and hopeless, physically and mentally, with only a longing to pass on to some unknown future state, to see if I could there secure one day free from suffering.
In the nine years that I have been reading the Sentinel and Journal, I have often thought that we seem to have very little appreciation of what has been done for us in Christian Science.
Feeling that I have been greatly benefited through the ministrations of Christian Science, I willingly add my testimony, hoping it may be an inspiration to others in need as I was, to find out for themselves that God is the "great Physician" and ever-present helper.
When I think of the seventeen years passed in pain and intense suffering, which the doctors said was caused from female weakness and heart disease, I feel that I must tell others of my healing in Christian Science.
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